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chip away at something
phrasal verb with chipverb[ I or T ]uk /tʃɪp/ us /tʃɪp/-pp-
to gradually reduce something so that it becomes smaller or weaker:
He gradually chipped away at her confidence.
Invaders chipped away at the fringes of their empire.
Fees will chip away at your small investment funds.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Becoming and making smaller or less
abridgment
attenuate
attenuated
attenuating
attenuation
compress
contraction
dwindling
ease
ease someone's mindidiom
ease up/off
fall away
halve
reduce
reducible
reduction
resize
retreat
trough
tumble
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